Our blog’s homepage is recently given by Google a PR of 5. But it was dropped from 5 to 4 during the recent update of Google on our blog’s PR. Is my blog slapped by Google?
Allen considered the drop of the PR of his blog as a penalty imposed by Google for posting a sponsored post. Some bloggers suspected that Google’s algo contains a code that detects sponsored posting on sites and blogs as it spider the webpages. Soon as the system detects PR-banned terms within the website, Google automatically set the display PR to 0.
Well, it might be true that Google are penalizing the PR of the websites that sell links to their advertisers. However, I didn’t consider a thought that Google penalized this blog by dropping its PR from 5 to 4. What I am really thinking is that, some of the bloggers and webmasters withdraw links back to this blog, if not, they simply insert the “no follow” tag on the links linking back to this blog. Once the number of backlinks to this blog dops, so it is normal also that the blog’s PR will drop to the corresponding PR.
So, what should we do to avoid the drop of PR?
Well, there are 2 things I knew how to avoid the drop of PR. And these are:
- Avoid selling links. We all know that Google hates to learn that you are selling your blog’s links based on the PR rating given by Google to the pages of your blogs.
- Continue your link campaign. You might already gain a considerable number of backlinks to your blogs from other websites and blogs but it is not yet the time to stop looking for backlinks. Don’t forget that from time to time, some websites or blogs that are linking back to your blog might die or some of them might withdraw the links back to your blog. So, think of ways to gain more backlinks to your blogs.
Actually, you don’t have to worry if your blog’s PR has been dropped to a lower value. The world is not over yet if your blog has been penalized by Google PR system. Continue your blogging activities, SEO campaigns and your money making jobs, then you’ll see that the display-PR is just a piece of a useless a useless thing that exist in the internet.
May 5th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
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May 5th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
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May 6th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Hi,
the drop in PR could basically be either a change in Google’s algorithm, or (as you said it) that other sites previously linking to yours have decided to use NOFOLLOW in order to conserve their own PR.
Google doesn’t ban you to sell links. It’s okay to advertise. But if you do so, then you must use rel=NOFOLLOW to those people advertising to avoid any penalty. Of course, that wouldn’t sound too good for your advertisers, but if you do so you should make them aware of the terms.
I find that aiming after good SERPs is a more rewarding thing than chasing after PR, I’ve seen sites with not-so-high PR rank among the top for competitive keywords. That means much and brings a good amount of traffic.
The key is getting strong inbound links that are relevant to your niche and providing quality content that others would want to link to (there’s a lot of that here in your blog, many thanks).
Best regards,
Oliver
May 6th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
We almost have the same topic in our posts. Oh Google and its mysterious ways!
May 7th, 2008 at 4:57 am
using rel=NOFOLLOW tags in links doesn’t guarantee that your blog will be safe from google spank, though it works on some of my blog.
May 7th, 2008 at 9:49 am
Perhaps the sites that link to you experienced drops in their PR, because the sites that link to them also… well, you get the picture.
If you want better control over your PR, build a network of useful blogs that send one-way links to high PR pages (i.e., Squidoo, Hubpages) that promote SELaplana.com
May 13th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
true, we should be too obsessed with pr
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